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It’s 1879 and
seventeen-year-old Theodocia Hews is out of control. Her inventor father Orin
Hews tried to raise her to be a proper lady, but Theo says and does whatever
she wants. Since girls aren’t supposed to be inventors, she’s secretly building
her own airship up on the roof of their house. When her father is attacked and
his valuable invention is stolen, she sets out in her untested airship to
get her father’s contraption back. She’d better hurry. Her father’s contract
with his buyer expires in three days and without it they’re ruined.

The airship lifts off
but things get complicated when Theo finds an unintended passenger aboard.
Henry Caracticus Thorne—the thief she’d spotted that morning making off with
things in the market—is an altogether unsuitable companion. But he’s unlike
anyone she’s ever met before, he’s willing to help, and he’s drop-dead
gorgeous. As they soar through the sky in the close quarters of Theo’s airship,
it’s not just the steam engine heating up.

Theo has a hunch who
took her father’s invention. Will she manage to catch the culprit before
it’s too late? What did that strange lightning storm do to Theo and Henry? And
will Theo give in to her heart and act on her growing feelings for Henry?

The Adventures of Theodocia Hews is a humorous
YA steampunk adventure/romance series set in 1879 Cincinnati in an
alternate universe where the evil institution of slavery was abolished shortly
after the United States was founded, the Civil War never happened, crazy
inventions are commonplace, and steam powerrules!

About the Author

Nooce Miller writes fantasy, speculative fiction, and YA
steampunk. Technical writer, lawyer, marketing communications editor, medical
writer, she’s held a lot of jobs, but her current gig is the one she likes
best—author. Her favorite music to write to is silence because the dialogue
turns out better. She’s also fond of birdsong, thunder, and the sound of the
wind in the trees. She sees herself as a visually creative person, though
others might disagree once they’ve been exposed to the questionable quality of
her drawings, paintings, and photography. She drinks a lot of hot Earl Grey
tea, usually in the company of her dog Stinky—who never partakes.

She’s lived in six different states and one foreign country.
Tiring of so much moving, she undertook to persuade her husband that they
should settle down and enjoy the four glorious seasons of her beloved Midwest
until their two sons were grown, and lo and behold, it worked.